Block, 1/17-18 - Much Ado about Noting Good Quotes

• P&P

• Apostrophe Review: Open Bedford 36 PDF posted on Focus and complete Ex. 1 and 2. Review Ex. 1. We will be paying particular attention to your apostrophes on the forthcoming essay.

• Finish Much Ado

• Pass back Hamlet essays and review the sample essays on the blog. 
• Please note that these essays are not without error. Discuss strengths and weaknesses 
• Pay particular attention to what makes a good topic sentence (TS) and what does not.
• A mere fact does not make a good TS, for it is too particular and can neither be disagreed with nor agreed with.
• A good TS should be a more general statement, an opinion that can be disagreed with, and can be supported with multiple details from the text.  

• Begin putting together an outline for use on your ICE on Tuesday. You may not bring the essay already written, but you certainly may bring an outline with your quotes ready to go. 

HW: understand Paradise Lost (lines 1-270) and read Don John's lines from Much Ado about Nothing so you can begin collecting notes, building an outline, etc. to write an ICE on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday). The prompt is to compare Satan and Don John. Consider any of the following: their motives, words, thoughts, attitudes, actions, dwelling-places, victims, and arch-enemies.